The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.